Case 23
- Games of Moral Improvement & Religious Instruction
T. Newton. The new game of the mansion of bliss: in verse. London: Bodley Head, 1981.
The mansion of bliss (1810) is a table game of chance
of the moral improvement type, rewarding virtue and punishing vice. It takes
the form of a spiral track with numbered pictorial sections. Players moved
their respective men by spinning the teetotum, a small top or disc usually
numbered from one to four.
T. Newton. The new game of the mansion of bliss: in verse. London: Bodley Head, 1981.
Accompanying
rule book for The new game of the Mansion
of bliss.
Isabel Reed (compiler). Reed's Bible game. Wellington: A.H. & A.W. Reed, [193-?]
Published
by A.H. Reed, these boxes of hand-typed Bible-themed cards are each accompanied
by rules for four different games (including one played like ‘Happy families’)
intended to enhance knowledge of the books and characters of the Bible.
Books of the Bible; New Testament who’s who; Old Testament who’s who. Wellington: A.H. & A.W. Reed, [194-?]
In this
later edition of Reed’s Bible game,
the text is printed in book form, to be cut up into cards.
Books of the Bible; New Testament who’s who; Old Testament who’s who. Wellington: A.H. & A.W. Reed, [194-?]
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